A place to share my voice on important issues: Celebrating our seniors, grief and loss associated with middle age, infertility, depression, anxiety and learning to live fully with both! Faith, ministry, international adoption and special needs. Here's to finding our voices and using them!

I don’t want to know

Today I want to share with you a reflection I wrote some time ago. I cannot really call it a poem as I’m sure it doesn’t follow the proper rules of poetry. All I know is that it was coming from a very raw place. In the coming days as I am able and this blog takes better shape, I will share more of our story. My friends in the adoption and foster care world will certainly be able to relate. Those of you who have ever had pain in your heart from something you wanted badly that has yet to come to fruition can maybe relate too. It is no small task for me to share this. As a “recovering perfectionist,” it is tough to let others know I don’t always have it all together. Who does, though? I put this out there, as a way to continue accepting my journey in all of its “messed up splendor”!

I am the Chief Meteorologist at FOX 9 in Minneapolis; I love my life, love my wife, love my daughters and love my dog...kinda like the cat. I lost a third of my lower lip to squamous cell cancer in 2016...it is now early 2017 and this blog will hopefully serve as my therapuetic writing journey through topical chemotherapy treatment

This is a medium to share my global experience, random thoughts and others’ viewpoints on local and universal issues. It’s an opportunity to learn our differences and similarities, build a sense of community and offer solutions, if possible. Think of conversations over meals, drinks or during seaside walk.